Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 26

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  Boston Corbett, the US Army soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth
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  Flag of Tanzania
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  Paul von Hindenburg
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  Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
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  SS emblem
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  Statue of Sybil Ludington
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  B&O Royal Blue
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  B&O Royal Blue

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Feast day of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Roman Catholic Church)	refimprove section
; Arbor Day in the United States (2013)	refimprove
1777 – American Revolutionary War: Sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington allegedly rode Template:Convert through the night to warn militiamen under her father Henry's command that British troops were planning to invade Danbury, Connecticut.	OR/unsourced essay section
1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeated Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election, becoming the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.	refimprove, too long section
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe resulted in a devastating firestorm that caused widespread destruction and civilian deaths and inspired one of Pablo Picasso's most famous paintings.	both: refimprove section
1945 – World War II: Both the German and Polish–Soviet sides claimed victory as major fighting in the Battle of Bautzen ended.	claims of victory on this day not mentioned
1956 – [[SS Ideal X|Template:Nowrap]] set sail from Port Newark in New Jersey as the part of world's first successful container shipping business.	Ideal X: stub; Container ship: refimprove section; Containerization: refimprove section + lead too short
1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania with Julius Nyerere as its first president.	refimprove section
1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco performed the world's first human open fetal surgery.	refimprove
1982 – In one of the deadliest spree killings in modern history, South Korean police officer Woo Bum-kon killed a total of 57 people in one night, including himself.	refimprove section
1983 – Cold War: Replying to her letter in which she expressed her fears about the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States, Soviet leader Yuri Andropov invited American schoolgirl Samantha Smith to visit Moscow, Leningrad and the Artek Young Pioneer camp.	appears on July 7
1986 – The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (pictured) near Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR, suffered a steam explosion, resulting in a fire, a nuclear meltdown, and the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people around Europe.	2 unsourced sections, other unsourced paragraphs
2002 – An expelled student murdered sixteen people and wounded seven others before committing suicide at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium Erfurt in Erfurt, Germany.	refimprove section
World Intellectual Property Day	Undercited section

Eligible

• 1865 – U.S. Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, ending a twelve-day manhunt.
• 1941 – Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil-resistance and political organization during World War II.
• 1944 – World War II: U.S. Navy submarines began attacks on Japan's Take Ichi convoy as it sailed in waters between Taiwan and the Philippines, eventually sinking four vessels and killing more than 4,000 troops.
• 1958 – Service ended on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue Line, one of the first major electrified train lines in the U.S. (steam train pictured).
• 1970 – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) came into being when the WIPO Convention entered into force.
• 1989 – An editorial was published in the People's Daily denouncing the growing unrest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing which would remain contentious through the remainder of the protests.
• 2007 – Controversy surrounding the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet Red Army World War II memorial in Tallinn, Estonia, erupted into mass protests and riots.
• 2012 – The International Hydrographic Organization abandoned South Korean-led 'attempts to rename the Sea of Japan.
• Born/died: | Chen Jingxuan |d|893| Jean Fernel |d|1558|Samuel Bellamy |d|1717| Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily |b|1782| Nano Nagle |d|1784| Ludwig Wittgenstein |b|1889| Hack Wilson |b|1900| [[I. M. Pei|Template:Nowrap Pei]] |b|1917| Srinivasa Ramanujan |d|1920| Margaret Gowing |b|1921| Margaret Scott |b|1922Anne McLaren |b|1927| Giorgio Moroder |b|1940| Morihei Ueshiba |d|1969| Alex Sobel |b|1975| Scott Brown |b|1985

Notes

• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln appears on April 14, so John Wilkes Booth should not appear in the same year.

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• 1478 – In a conspiracy to replace the Medici family as rulers of the Republic of Florence, the Pazzi family attacked Lorenzo de' Medici (pictured) and killed his brother Giuliano at Florence Cathedral.
• 1915 – First World War: Britain, France and Russia signed a secret treaty promising territory to Italy if it joined the war on their side.
• 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, was established.
• 1989 – A tornado struck the Manikganj District of Bangladesh and killed an estimated 1,300 people, making it the deadliest tornado in history.
• 1994 – Just before landing at Nagoya Airport, Japan, the copilot of China Airlines Flight 140 inadvertently triggered the takeoff/go-around switch, causing the aircraft to crash and killing 264 of the 271 people on board.